Legendary recording engineer and producer Tom Dowd (1925-2002) spent more than five decades in the studio, his career mirroring the development of studio engineering as an art form in its own right, a complement to making music rather than an afterthought. Born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Dowd came from an arts-oriented family — his mother was a singer and his father a stage manager; as a youngster he studied violin and piano, took up the tuba in high school and finally settled on the string bass as his preferred instrument. His future seemed preordained, except that after finishing high school he decided he was more interested in science tha...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
88 mins